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Headword: Pristheis
Adler number: pi,2299
Translated headword: gripped
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning one who was] attached from, bound.[1]
"Gripped from the rails of the horses with a girdle, he was constantly being shredded, until he breathed out his life."[2]
Greek Original:
Pristheis: exaphtheis, desmêtheis. zôstêri pristheis hippikôn ex antugôn, eknaptet' aien, es t' apepsuxe bion.
Notes:
[1] The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is aorist passive participle, masculine nominative singular, of pri/w "saw" (see LSJ s.v. A.III).
[2] Sophocles, Ajax 1030-1031 (on Hektor), with scholion; quoted also at alpha 2769 and tau 1233.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; mythology; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 April 2013@01:26:23.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 15 April 2013@03:57:40.
David Whitehead on 14 October 2013@06:01:34.

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